1977 Five Nations Championship

1977 Five Nations Championship
Date	15 January 1977 - 19 March 1977
Countries	England; Ireland; France; Scotland; Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	France (6th title)
Grand Slam	France (2nd title)
Triple Crown	Wales (14th title)
Calcutta Cup	England
Matches played	10
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The 1977 Five Nations Championship was the forty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 15 January and 19 March.

France won the championship for the sixth time outright. Including shared titles this was France's tenth championship overall. France won the Grand Slam for the second time and did so with the same fifteen players in all four matches (a unique feat for a Grand Slam winner) and without conceding a try.^[1]^[2] England, in 1913, are the only other Grand Slam winners not to concede a try.^[3] France also registered the lowest points total, 58, of any Grand Slam winner in the four point-try era (1972–92).^[2] Wales won the Triple Crown for the second consecutive season and the fourteenth time overall, equalling England's record of Triple Crown wins. They were the first Triple Crown winners to finish as runners-up in the championship.^[1]

Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
Position	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Table points
1	France	4	4	0	0	58	21	+37	8
2	Wales	4	3	0	1	66	43	+23	6
3	England	4	2	0	2	42	24	+18	4
4	Scotland	4	1	0	3	39	85	−46	2
5	Ireland	4	0	0	4	33	65	−32	0